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2024/25 Resident Companies

SPITTING IMAGE presented by Starr Foster Dance


april 3-6, 2025
presented by starr foster dance

SPITTING IMAGE presented by Starr Foster Dance

To continue our mission to collaborate with and support other artists, SFD will present Spitting Image 2025 April 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th 2025 for 5 performances at the Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, Virginia.

This year there are 7 incredible photographers and 9 guest performers from the community joining us.

COMPANY ARTISTS:
Fran Hemmer-Beaumont, Madison Ernstes, Shannon Comerford, Molly Huey, Angela Palmisano

SPITTING IMAGE GUEST PERFORMERS:
Adria Applebee, Alex Atkins, Roya Baker-Vahdani, Sarah Carrington, Lena Cohen (SFD 2024/25 mentee), Ma-Siya Dacus, Sophia Smith, Ella Holland, Janelle Ragland

SPITTING IMAGE SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Becky Atkins, Caroline Frye, Shannon Mills Guest, Mike Harrell, Allison Patel, Georgianne Stinnett, PJ Sykes

Performance Dates:
April 3-6, 2025

yES! DANCE FESTIVAL


april 11-12, 2025
presented by kdance

YES! Dance Festival

A national contemporary dance event 

National guest choreographers from New York, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, California & Richmond

Including three artists listed in Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch"

Producer - K Dance and Kaye Weinstein Gary

Performers Include:

Conflux Dance Theater, Miguel Perez, Richmond

K Dance, Kaye Weinstein Gary, Richmond

Li Chiao-Ping, Wisconsin

Stevie Lamblin, Ohio

Megan Mazarick, Pennsylvania

Genna Moroni, California

Miho Ryu, New York

2nd Best Dance Company, Hannah Garner, New York

Theresa Jimmerson, Florida

smoke

by Enid Graham

Directed by Anna Senechal Johnson
May 22-June 7, 2025
presented by cadence theatre

In a world where consumerism is king, distraction is everywhere and public discourse is shot, a couple from New York City arrive at a rented McMansion on a hill to attend a family wedding. Smoke is a darkly funny play about what happens when truth is up for grabs.

Smoke is made possible by the generous support of Byrne Canaan Law, the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  

Enid Graham is a writer and actress living in New York City where she is a 2022 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at Juilliard. Most recently, Tenderness and Gratitude Number Four was seen as part of the Scripts in Hand series at the Westport Country Playhouse and it received a reading at the Chance Theatre in Anaheim, CA. Her play A Long Time Ago in a Dark Yard at Night was performed in a 2022 reading series at the Hudson Stage Company, and her short play for Zoom, Do Not Go, My Love was performed in an online reading series, also at Hudson Stage. Golden was presented in audio format for The Falconworks Theater Company. What Martha Did received a preview production in the Launch Pad series at UCSB. Her play Ruth was chosen for the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center and the New TACTics New Play Festival in NYC. What Martha Did, was a finalist for the National Playwrights’ Conference and a semi-finalist in the Blue Ink Playwriting Festival in Chicago. Other plays include: Smoke (2022 NPC finalist), Pathological Venus (2020 finalist NPC), Something Unrecognizable, The Plans I Have for You, How To Save Ourselves and Saint Vegas. As an actress, her credits include numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions such as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and Honour (Tony Award nomination), and Television/Film including The Sinner, Boardwalk Empire, Margaret, Mare of Easttown, and Rabbit Hole.